Call for drawings, notebooks and things we think with :

 As part of the event The Materiality of Nothing at Lancaster University on 14th July there will be a session on Negotiating the Imperceptible. We invite workshop participants to submit small drawings, notebooks or other object they use in thinking around the intangible.
We hope to have a wide range of objects and drawings on display to stimulate discussion on how we can work around elusive, immaterial and indescribable ideas. Participants come from a range of disciplines across the arts and sciences so we are hoping for a rich variety of drawings an objects. 
To submit a work, please contact Sarah Casey: [log in to unmask] by July 7th 2016
The event will be reviewed in a subsequent issue of the journal  Drawing Research, Theory Practice.   

More information about the symposium itself: 

The Materiality of Nothing is a one day symposium at Lancaster University bringing together practice and perspectives on negotiating the absent, unseen and unknown across art, science and social science.
Across the arts and sciences that we call ‘zero’ ,‘absence’ or ‘nothing’ remains a potent and powerful entity shaping the way we make sense of the world. It is staggering to reflect that 95% of our universe is invisible to human sensing; the provocation of the unknown and unseen is arguably at the core of creative thinking in the arts and sciences.
This event brings together a range  perspectives on materialising the absent, unseen and unknown to reflect on the following questions:
•	How can ‘nothing’ be embodied?
•	How does it feel to encounter the immaterial and how might we negotiate it?
•	How might mathematics - as a speculative 'messenger' to and from the unsensed - be understood as a medium for generating touch and relationship (or not)?
•	How might absence, uncertainty be used as provocations and tool for creative thinking?
•	What can this offer in terms of understanding relationship and non-relationship, affect and non affect?


Speakers include: Anna Lovatt ( SM University, Dallas) , Gary Sangster ( Director Arts Catalyst) Charlie Gere ( Lancaster University) Bron Szerszynski  ( Lancaster University) Liz deFreitas (Manchester Metropolitan University) Rebecca Fortnum ( Middlesex University) Ian Bailey and Laura Kormos ( Lancaster University).
The event will provide an opportunity to extend conversations initiated by the AHRC funded ‘Dark Matters’ project which considered the provocations around Thresholds of Imperceptibility.   It aims to build on the success of a workshop at Lancaster (2015) and to develop a network of researchers working with the interstices between presence and absence from the arts and humanities, the social and physical sciences.

Details
Date : 14th July 2016
Time: 10.30 – 17.00
Location : Lancaster University, LICA Building , C01 Design Studio

Registration: There will be  is a small registration fee of £15 to cover lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Payment and registration can be done here: http://online-payments.lancaster-university.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=6&catid=602&prodid=3507

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